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The Salford Quarry Site is nestled in a residential area of Harleysville, PA and is currently in construction using BIL funding. The remedial action seeks to minimize boron contamination leaching from the tile waste buried in the quarry by installing a subsurface perimeter wall and RCRA Subtitle C cap. Operable Unit 1 is defined as waste and soil surrounding the waste. Performance monitoring of OU1 will inform the remedy for groundwater, surface water, and sediment (Operable Unit 2). We anticipate the site will be vegetated and restored with over 100 trees and 1,000 shrubs in March/April 2026.

About the Presenter

Since 2006, Sharon Fang has been a Remedial Project Manager (RPM) in Region 3. She has a wide variety of experiences with difficult PRPs, Fund lead sites, and cross programmatic work. She is currently the Region 3 rep on the Institutional Controls Workgroup and the Vapor Intrusion Workgroup. Before stepping into RPM-land, she worked for private industry, the Army Corps of Engineers both Baltimore and Philadelphia Districts, the Region 3 Brownfields Program when it was still under Removal authority, and Region 3 NPDES Enforcement. She holds a B.S. in Civil Engineering from The Johns Hopkins University, a M.S. in Environmental Engineering from Villanova University, and a Professional Engineering license in Pennsylvania.